With Ghibli’s Arrietty just out in UK cinemas the studio’s follow up has already found it’s way into cinemas in Japan and we’ve got a trailer for Kokuriko-zaka Kara, which translates to From Up on Poppy Hill.
Goro (son of Hayao) Miyazaki pulls on his directing trousers for the first time since 2006’s Tales from Earthsea and his father adapted Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsurou Sayama’s manga along with Keiko Miya as well as providing the storyboards for the movie so his hand will be evident in this film.
The trailer is a work of art in itself, and Twitch, who posted the trailer, took the simple one line synopsis from IMDb,
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
And Anime News Network expand on the plot,
Umi Matsuzaka, the eldest sibling in a close-knit family of five, raises a pair of signal flags everyday at her seaside house in Yokohama Bay without fail in anticipation of the return of her father, who went missing in action during the Korean War. In school, Umi finds herself involved in a student movement seeking to prevent the demolition of an old club house. In the process, she falls in love with the newspaper club president Jun Kazama, only to find out that they might be related by blood.
You had me at Ghibli…
Here’s the trailer,
